Facebook instituted its biggest executive shakeup in its 15-year history this week, Recode reported on Tuesday, a reorganization that will include a new blockchain effort and aims to address privacy concerns.

The experimental blockchain group will be led by David Marcus, the executive most recently in charge of Facebook’s Messenger group.

Marcus sits on the board of directors of Coinbase, an exchange for cryptocurrency (which uses the blockchain as its underlying technology), and joined Facebook from PayPal in 2014.

Marcus confirmed his new role in a tweet: – – Facebook will now operate under three divisions: a family of apps group (including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger), a new platforms division (including a blockchain technology team, augmented and virtual reality, enterprise technology and artificial intelligence) and a central product…

As part of this week’s reorganization, most Facebook apps are getting new leaders, save Instagram, which will continue to be run by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom.

Williams has spent a chunk of his post-football life studying everything from holistic medicine to astrology and he tells CNBC Make It that the studying the cosmos actually informed his decision to invest in the recent cryptocurrency boom.

When I look at things, I tend to look at astrology to get insight, says Williams, who tells CNBC Make It that his readings of astrological charts have pointed him in the direction of Bitcoin.

The insight that got me interested in Bitcoin was the planet Uranus is about to enter into Taurus, says Williams.

The revolutionary aspect of Uranus in astrology, combined with Taurus’ focus on wealth and finance, is leading Williams to predict that, in the near future, we’re going to totally change the way we view and understand finances, he says.

So, you know, I had to get a little piece of that action, Williams adds.

As the cryptocurrency market matures, bitcoin could be pushed out by competitors the same way the video cassette tape format Betamax lost out to rival VHS as home entertainment technology evolved during the 1980s, according to one tech investor.

As the cryptocurrency market matures, bitcoin could be pushed out by competitors the same way the video cassette tape format Betamax lost out to rival VHS as home entertainment technology evolved during the 1980s, according to one tech investor.

Buffett bashed bitcoin Monday in an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick, saying the world’s largest cryptocurrency doesn’t produce anything except more buyers looking to make money by selling to new buyers.

Palihapitiya, who called himself a Buffett disciple, said he sees the cryptocurrency as a replacement to gold.

Something like bitcoin is really important, Palihapitiya said, because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

In December, Palihapitiya bashed social media, and by extension Facebook, for creating a society that confuses popularity with truth.